Balch Fellowship

Balch Fellowship

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Prior to its merger with the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, The Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies maintained an active fellowship program. This legacy of support for scholarship in ethnic and immigrant studies has been continued at HSP with the Balch Institute Fellowships. Each year, two or three fellows are awarded a stipend to support one month of residency in Philadelphia to enable them to research on topics related to the ethnic and immigrant experience in the United States and/or American cultural, social, political, or economic history post-1875. Past Balch fellows have done research on immigrant children, Italian American fascism, German Americans in the Civil War, Pan-Americanism, African American women's political activism, and much more.

The stipend is $2,000. The Library Company's Cassatt House fellows' residence offers rooms at reasonable rates, along with a kitchen, common room, and offices with internet access, available to resident and nonresident fellows at all hours.

2013–2014

Elisabeth Piller, PhD Candidate in History, University of Heidelberg, Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Trondheim: Re-Winning American Hearts and Minds: German Cultural Diplomacy and the United States, 1919 to 1932

Rachel Wise, PhD Candidate in Literature, University of Texas at Austin: Losing Appalachia: Rethinking Genre through Local Color's Out-of-Place Objects

2010–2011

Corey Davis, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago: The Mind of the Merchant Class: The National Board of Trade and the Making of a National Political Economy in the Late Nineteenth Century

Anne Parsons, PhD Candidate in History, University of Illinois at Chicago: Our Brothers Keepers: Mental Asylums, Prisons, and the Institutionalization of Twentieth-Century America

2009–2010

Dr. Simone Cinotto, University of Turin, Italy: Public Housing and Cultural Pluralism in Italian Harlem, 1937–1941

Dr. Dolores Janiewski, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand: Philadelphia and the Construction of a Reactionary Culture, 1878–1918

2008–2009

Gregory Kupsky, PhD Candidate, Ohio State University: German America and National Socialism, 1933–1945

Alyssa Ribeiro, PhD Candidate, University of Pittsburgh: City of Brotherly Love? Intergroup Relations between Blacks and Latinos in Philadelphia, 1940s–1980s